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Constitutional Law


Who Is This Really About?

Dec. 2, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column By Shelton M. Vaughan Opponents of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act recognize that they have lost their case i...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Veteran City Attorney Guided San Bernardino

Dec. 2, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Services have been held for Ralph Harry Prince, who served as city attorney of San Bernardino for 28 years. ...


Government


Shooting Spurs Conflict Questions

Dec. 2, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - In his day job, John Monaghan is a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, whose confrontations with bad guys are...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Fast But Not Furious

Dec. 2, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

MADERA - Superior Court Judge Edward P. Moffat didn't earn the nickname "Fast Eddie" for nothing. The 57-year-old jurist hear...


State Bar & Bar Associations


MALDEF Marks 35 Years, Envisions Work to Come

Dec. 2, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

By Stefanie Knapp The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 35th anniversary in style with a bla...


Litigation


Man Files Suit Over Reverse Discrimination

Dec. 2, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Oceanside is facing a $1 million discrimination claim brought by a lawyer for the city who claims he can't...


Constitutional Law


Who Is This Really About?

Dec. 1, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column By Margaret Crosby Imagine that you need an operation to prevent serious health problems - but the government has...


Juvenile


LOS ANGELES - For the first time in a decade, Levont Guillory spent Thanksgiving with his mother. Since 1993, the 32-year-old ...


Constitutional Law


What Goes on Behind Elegant Art Exhibits?

Nov. 29, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Devotees of painting and sculpture from far and wide come to the city's internationally renowned Museum of Art, bu...


Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Critics of state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush's nominee for t...


Law Practice


Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - California employment law is filled with examples of the law of unintended consequence...


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Over the last several years, courts have curtailed significantly the Four...


Judges and Judiciary


Looking at Justice From Both Sides Now

Nov. 29, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Susan Lerner - It is time for supporters of Janice Rogers Brown's nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...


Personal Injury & Torts


Levee Ruling Could Cost State $300M

Nov. 29, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A Gold Country levee built 99 years ago continues to haunt the state of California 17 years after it failed in...


SAN FRANCISCO - The gloves came off Thanksgiving eve as candidate Kamala Harris launched the first haymaker at incumbent Teren...


Public Interest


Police Records Ruling

Nov. 29, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department and the district attorney must turn over to a civil rights lawyer 10 years of ...


Appellate Practice


Panel Overturns Ban of Expert Testimony

Nov. 29, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A trial court judge was wrong to exclude the testimony of experts in a case in which a pesticide company was bei...


Litigation


Investigative Data Gets Shield

Nov. 29, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court decision will help would-be defendants in environmental cases keep under wraps infor...


Appellate Practice


Medi-Pot Gains Some Federal-Court Support

Nov. 27, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - The road to recovery will be a long one for Scott Imler, who next week will undergo surgery to have a cancerous ...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Until recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...


Government


Workers' Comp Plan Outlined

Nov. 27, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Attorneys who represent workers injured on the job blamed insurers Tuesday for rising workers' compensation premi...


Criminal


Probation Move Riles Judges

Nov. 27, 2003
By Riley Guerin

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County bench and its Board of Supervisors are going to war over who should run the probation depart...


Appellate Practice


Panel Slashes Ford Damages To $24 Million

Nov. 27, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday ruled excessive a $290 million punitive-damages award for a family that lost thr...


Discipline


Discovery Ruling Gets High Court's Attention

Nov. 27, 2003
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review an appellate ruling that prosecutors say wrongly expande...


Column By Garry Abrams - In Hollywood, you're nobody until somebody bugs you. OK, Michael Jackson was famous before the report...


Discipline


Gender Fault Lines

Nov. 27, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A year ago John Patrick Dwyer spent Thanksgiving Day on the deserted Boalt Hall campus, loading files and pers...


Criminal


Fazio Endorsement: None of the Above

Nov. 27, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Incumbent Terence Hallinan and challenger Kamala Harris lost a chance for a campaign edge in the San Francisco...


Education


Candidates Unfazed by Boalt Turbulence

Nov. 27, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - The announced candidates for dean of Boalt Hall School of Law appear undaunted by ongoing diversity concerns a...


Corporate


Striking for Better

Nov. 26, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Henry M. Willis and Joseph L. Paller Jr. - Seventy thousand Southern California grocery store workers are ou...


International


Focus Column - International Law - By Michael S. Lebovitz - On May 1, 2004, 10 countries will join the European Union, bringin...